Essays about: "inconspicuous consumption"
Found 3 essays containing the words inconspicuous consumption.
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1. Time to purchase your ownhouse : The resistance of housing investments againstmacroeconomic shocks
University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggandeAbstract : Housing is both a durable good and an investment vehicle, which makes it importantin people’s daily life aswell as for a nation’s economy. This thesis innovatively applies the Sharpe ratio on evaluating the performance of the US residentialhousing market within the time period from 2005:Q1 to 2019:Q3, andinvestigates how this performance would react upon macroeconomic shocks,including sudden changes in GDP growth rate and personal income growthrate, by establishing a vector auto-regression model with the lag order of four. READ MORE
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2. Fashioning the political statement : A qualitative study into the duality of postfashion
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för modevetenskapAbstract : The aim of this study is to examine the interrelationship between contemporary French luxury fashion and political struggles by examining the garments with explicit political statements from the ready-to-wear spring/summer 2015 Chanel runway, the ready-to-wear spring/summer 2017 Dior runway and the menswear fall/winter 2017 Balenciaga runway analysis as to discern the possible reasons and effects of the making of these statements. The focus of this thesis is to examine the way political struggles, as immaterial social relationships, can be commodified into garments, as according to the Marxist situationist theories of Guy Debord, and how the commodification in question by haute couture houses, rich with the sociological notion of cultural capital as described by Pierre Bourdieu, can have a potential effect on the formation of both fashion discourses and political discourses by using Foucauldian discourse analysis. READ MORE
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3. Foodies: How status is manifested in the kitchen
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Purpose: This research explores how status is manifested within the foodie culture. More specifically, we explored how foodies claim status and express inconspicuous meanings through their food consumption practices. READ MORE